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You gotta learn how to tune strings before you can become a rock star!

by Rick Baker
On Nov 3, 2015

That concept holds true if you want to be a successful business leader.

It isn't a question of patience. It's a question of competence. It's about what it takes to develop competence.

Competence is about 4 things: 

  1. innate talent
  2. opportunities to try, fail, & learn
  3. specialized knowledge and
  4. skills, gained through practice 

These 4 things define Strengths & Performance Mastery.

These 4 things require time: Malcolm Gladwell claims it takes 10,000 hours...that said, patience is a necessary ingredient...but patience is only a means to the end, which is competence.

And - it's about more than strengths and performance mastery [competence]. 

At the bottom line. it's about leadership, including: 

 

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